Lead animator at Sony pictures imageworks and Co director of three live action feature films
Sep 2, 2021 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Animation Tips & Tricks: Volume I
Things will get techy. BEWARE!
Animating someone writing is more complicated than it looks. In #vivomovie I had to work on such a shot, so I thought I’d share the workflow I found worked best in this situation. Here’s the final result
2/ Typically, you’re given a scene with a piece of paper with the text written on it. You then animate the character running the pen along the words in the page, which will be revealed in the finish render. Any mismatch between the pen and the words would break the illusion
